How does a pair of near-vision spectacle correction empower older Zanzibari craftswomen?: A qualitative study on perception

• Michelle Fernandes Martins ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MFM, FO and OO are the co-first authors who have contributed equally to the research and manuscript writing. VFC and EM are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7606-9731

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• Fatma Omar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MFM, FO and OO are the co-first authors who have contributed equally to the research and manuscript writing. VFC and EM are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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• Omar Othman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MFM, FO and OO are the co-first authors who have contributed equally to the research and manuscript writing. VFC and EM are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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• Gianni Virgili,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Ai Chee Yong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Damaris Mulewa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Christine Graham,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Carlos Price-Sanchez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Ronnie Graham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vision Action, London, United Kingdom

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• Adrianna Farmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Eden Mashayo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MFM, FO and OO are the co-first authors who have contributed equally to the research and manuscript writing. VFC and EM are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Vision Care Foundation, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

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• Ving Fai Chan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: v.chan@qub.ac.uk

  ¶‡ MFM, FO and OO are the co-first authors who have contributed equally to the research and manuscript writing. VFC and EM are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Vision Action, London, United Kingdom, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-0478

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